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Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp Shutdown in Turkey

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 05 2016, @07:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the that's-pretty-fowl dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The TurkeyBlocks monitoring network has detected restrictions on access to multiple social media services Facebook, Twitter and YouTube throughout Turkey beginning Friday Nov 04 2016 1:20AM local time, ongoing as of Friday noon.

Restrictions on messaging services WhatsApp, Skype and Instagram have also now been detected, validating widespread user complaints about WhatsApp service failure in Turkey – the first time nationwide restrictions have been detected on the popular messaging apps in recent years.

The incident is believed to be related to the detention of multiple leaders of opposition political party HDP, accompanied by raids of the HDP headquarters in Ankara.

Such a sad turn of events for such a wonderful country.

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 05 2016, @09:49AM

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  • (Score: 2) by ticho on Saturday November 05 2016, @12:51PM

    by ticho (89) on Saturday November 05 2016, @12:51PM (#422816) Homepage Journal

    JFYI, I modded you Flamebait, since you and I both know that "access to information" does not mean "allowing you to post crap", so you're just being an idiot here (and possibly so am I, by responding to one).

  • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:04PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday November 06 2016, @09:04PM (#423261) Journal

    "You can still [log in] to post," it says. Just make an account, or post under (the) one you already have, it means.